Hedy Lamarr, Aribert Mog, Zvonimir Rogoz. Lamarr bares all in a story about a child bride's unquenchable sexual appetite that erupts when she leaves a loveless marriage to have a fufilling and... more
Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke. Lorre made his powerful screen debut as a child murderer hunted by the authorities and the underworld. Directed by Fritz Lang. In German with English subtitles.... more
An incredible film! Wegener plays a mad scientist who murders his wife when her black cat knocks over a piece of strange equipment in his dungeon laboratory, and like a true mad doctor he walls her... more
Heinz Drache, Karin Baal, Siegfried Schurenberg, Agnes Windeck. Baal inherits a mysterious old castle. She is pressured to sell the place, but refuses. That's when bodies start showing up, their... more
Brad Harris, Tony Kendall. A really sleazy exploitaion film about a bunch of sleazy guys who run a sleazy white slavery operation somewhere in a sleazy part of the Orient. Harris and Kenall are the... more
Max Hubacher, Frederick Lau, Milan Peschel. A German Army deserter tries to escape the madness of the Third Reich during the final days of WWII. When he finds an abandoned uniform of a Nazi captain,... more
PEOPLE ON SUNDAY (MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG) represents an astonishing confluence of talent an early collaboration by a group of German filmmakers who would all go on to become major Hollywood players,... more
Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander, Peter Falk. This beautiful film sees Berlin through the eyes of angels—one of whom falls deeply in love with a female circus performer. Features cameos by Peter Falk and Nick... more
An idealistic middle school teacher who advocates for a student accused of stealing becomes embroiled in conflict when she becomes the target of a theft herself.
Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke. Lorre made his powerful screen debut as a child murderer hunted by the authorities and the underworld. Bonus features include audio commentary by German film scholars... more
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke. A criminal mastermind controls his underworld empire while residing in an asylum, plotting ways of destroying the world. In German with English subtitles. Includes... more
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Elga Sorbas. In such a short amount of time, Fassbinder worked his way up to be one of the most productive artists. This collection is a mixture of his works. Includes Love... more
In it's home country, Frantisek Vlacil's MARKETA LAZAROVA has been hailed as the greatest Czech film ever made; for many U.S. viewers, it will be a revelation. Based on a novel by Vladislav Vancura,... more
As World War II splits Europe, sixteen-year-old German Jew Salomon (Marco Hofschneider) is separated from his family after fleeing with them to Poland, and finds himself reluctantly assuming various... more
Rüdiger Vogler pulls triple duty in this trio of "road" film classics from director Wim Wenders. In Wenders' first "road" film, Alice in the Cities (Yella Rottländer. 1974/110 min.), a journalist on... more
David Bennent, Mario Adorf. This Oscar-winning new-wave film tells the story of a three-year-old boy who stops growing the year Nazis gain power in Germany and takes out his anger by beating a drum.... more
The astonishing The Bridge, by Bernhard Wicki (The Longest Day), was the first major antiwar film to come out of Germany after World War II, as well as the nation's first postwar film to be widely... more
New German Cinema icon Rainer Werner Fassbinder (World on a Wire) kicked off a new phase of his young career when he made the startling The Merchant of Four Seasons. In this despairing yet mordantly... more
Klaus Lowitsch, Barbara Valentin. With dashes of Stanley Kubrick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Philip K. Dick, as well as a flavor entirely his own, Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the noir-spiked tale of a... more
Based on the Rainer Werner Fassbinder classic, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, François Ozon's unique retelling finds Peter Von Kant, a successful, famous director, who lives with his assistant... more
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Muller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe. A soldier-turned-officer in turn-of-the-century Czechoslovakia finds his long and respected career threatened by scandal. In Hungarian... more
Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla. Petra is an arrogant fashion designer who mistreats her assistant and then falls in love with an aspiring young model Karin. Karin moves in with Petra... more
Debra Padget, Paul Christian, Walter Reyer, directed by Fritz Lang. Padget plays an exotic dancer who is coveted by an evil maharajah she looks absolutely stunning
Mike Müller, Barbara Terpoorten, Carlos Leal. Luc Conrad, a veteran police detective, who left the force in order to run the family business as an undertaker, can't stop his mind from thinking like a... more